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Trucking   /trˈəkɪŋ/   Listen
noun
Trucking  n.  The business of conveying goods on trucks.



verb
Truck  v. t.  To transport on a truck or trucks.



Truck  v. t.  (past & past part. trucked; pres. part. trucking)  To exchange; to give in exchange; to barter; as, to truck knives for gold dust. "We will begin by supposing the international trade to be in form, what it always is in reality, an actual trucking of one commodity against another."



Truck  v. i.  To exchange commodities; to barter; to trade; to deal. "A master of a ship, who deceived them under color of trucking with them." "Despotism itself is obliged to truck and huckster." "To truck and higgle for a private good."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Trucking" Quotes from Famous Books



... adventurers shall continue their joynt stock & partnership togeather, y^e space of 7. years, (excepte some unexpected impedimente doe cause y^e whole company to agree otherwise,) during which time, all profits & benifits that are gott by trade, traffick, trucking, working, fishing, or any other means of any person or persons, remaine still in y^e co[m]one stock ...
— Bradford's History of 'Plimoth Plantation' • William Bradford

... an excellent field for corporate enterprise. Certainly there is no more reason why the poultry community cannot be as successfully promoted as an irrigation project, or a cheese factory, or a trucking community. In such a community there are many functions that can be better performed by a capitalized body managed by experts than by individual ...
— The Dollar Hen • Milo M. Hastings

... a commercial scale the implements needed will be the same as for general trucking—plows, harrows, weeder, etc.—to fit the soil for the hand tools. Much labor can be saved by using hand-wheel drills, cultivators, weeders and the other tools that have become so wonderfully popular within the past decade or two. Some typical kinds are shown in ...
— Culinary Herbs: Their Cultivation Harvesting Curing and Uses • M. G. Kains

... is by treaty, by barter, and by purchase, that we obtain from one another the greater part of those mutual good offices which we stand in need of, so it is this same trucking disposition which originally gives occasion to the division of labour. In a tribe of hunters or shepherds, a particular person makes bows and arrows, for example, with more readiness and dexterity than any other. He frequently exchanges them for cattle or for venison, ...
— An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations • Adam Smith



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